page_title: Jewish Combat Organization
section_title: ŻOB resistance to the second deportation
hierarchical_section_title: Jewish Combat Organization / ŻOB resistance to the second deportation
caption_attribution_description: Yugnt Shtimme (יוגנט שטימע), or the Youth Voice. Clandestine poster of the Żydowska Organizacja Bojowa (ŻOB) during German occupation of Poland. Text of message: "אלע מענטשן זענען ברידער: געלע, ברוינע, שווארצע ווייסע; פעלקער, ראסן און קלימאטן - ס'איז אן אויסגעטראכטע מעשה!" English translation: All people are brothers; Yellow, brown, black, and white. Talk of peoples, colors, races - Is all a made-up story!
context_page_description: The Jewish Combat Organization was a World War II resistance movement in occupied Poland, which was instrumental in organizing and launching the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. ŻOB took part in a number of other resistance activities as well.
context_section_description: On 18 January 1943, the Nazis began a second wave of deportations. The first Jews the Germans rounded up included a number of ŻOB fighters who had intentionally crept into the column of deportees. Led by Mordechai Anielewicz they waited for the appropriate signal, then stepped out of formation, and fought the Nazis with small arms. The column scattered and news of the ŻZW and ŻOB action quickly spread throughout the ghetto. During this small deportation, the Nazis only managed to round up about 5,000 to 6,000 Jews.
  The deportations lasted four days during which the Germans met other acts of resistance from the ŻOB. When they left the ghetto on 22 January 1943, the remaining Jews regarded it as a victory, however Israel Gutman, a member of the ŻOB who subsequently became one of the leading authors on Jewish Warsaw wrote, It [was] not known [to the Jews] that the Germans had not intended to liquidate the entire ghetto by means of the January deportations. However, Gutman concludes that the [January] deportations... had a decisive influence on the ghetto's last months.
caption: A poster of the Jewish Combat Organization. The Yiddish text reads:
  All people are equal brothers;
  Brown, White, Black, and Yellow.
  To separate peoples, colors, races -
  Is but an act of cheating!
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